id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-351384-z6t7csg8 Montesó-Curto, Pilar Coping with the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy and Spain: Lessons in Response Urgency 2020-07-28 .txt text/plain 1722 94 66 title: Coping with the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy and Spain: Lessons in Response Urgency It took the Italian government just two weeks to react firmly with the laws enacted on March 7 to establish a "red zone" throughout the country, which is when it closed all shops, except pharmacies and food stores, and banned entry and exit from the country. Coping with the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy and Spain: Lessons in response urgency Pilar Montesó-Curto 1 , Laura Sánchez-Montesó 2 , Fabio Stefano Maramao 2 , Loren Toussaint 3 Then, on March 13, the Government of Catalonia decreed the "confinement" of several municipalities due to a cluster within the epidemic that caused an exponential increase in cases of COVID-19 in Igualada, Vilanova del Camí, Santa Margarida de Montbui i Òdena [5] . A "state of emergency" in Spain was finally declared through a royal decree (463/2020) [6] on March 14 for a period of 15 calendar days. ./cache/cord-351384-z6t7csg8.txt ./txt/cord-351384-z6t7csg8.txt